Word: roughness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Owing to the rough water the '98 and 1900 crews were the only class crews which rowed in eights yesterday. The '97 crew took a run and the first '99 went out in pair oars...
...Senior crew rowed together on the river for the first time late Saturday afternoon, using the shell-bottomed, paper barge which the crew used two years ago. In spite of the rough water the crew did fairly good work. The order was as follows: Stroke, Saunders; 7, Duffield; 6, Dunlop; 5, Sullivan; 4, Sleeper; 3, Dexter; 2, Scattergood; bow, Rantoul. Mr. X. H. Goodenough '82 was out for a short time but did not see the men row. He will take charge of the crew next Wednesday and will be with them until the race...
...flowers will be placed around the Tree extending from five to eight feet from the ground and into them the '97 emblem will be woven. The men will wear ordinary clothes, probably a uniform costume to be recommended by the Class Day Committee, and the scrimmage will not be rough. The seats will be limited to about 3400. Five schemes were proposed, the first of which was adopted. Two of the others were those already suggested by the committee; to use four trees back of University, or to have a shower of flowers. The fourth scheme was to choose...
...regularity or order about the "scrimmage," except such as is furnished by the club organizations; and that is a regularity that none of us want. If the scrimmage had some of the points of football in it, there might be some reason for keeping it, but a pall mall rough-and-tumble exhibition can not be defended...
...objectionable features, however, which have crept into the exercises since the introduction of the class member,- these might easily be removed without destroying the essential value of the affair, which is nothing more than a good-natured, rough-and-tumble scrimmage. It would seem that the suggestion of the Class Day Committee to dispense with the number, and also to lower the wreath, would do away with all offensive roughness, and the necessity of forming large combinations in order to obtain the flowers...